When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and go on. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

"The true power of literature lies in its ability to give voice to the voiceless."

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The only secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.

我们要做的不是跟随，而是引领。

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; — that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

The companies that will thrive are those that see plastic not as waste, but as a renewable resource.